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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Timothy on June 07, 2012, 03:57:01 PM
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We've a resident black bear that's checking out the local vacation areas on Cape Cod! He's made it to the homosexual capital of New England...apparently Key West or San Fransisco were too far away!
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. - The biggest sensation on Cape Cod right now isn't the lobster, the lighthouses or the sand dunes. It's not even a Kennedy.
It's a bear.
A bruin believed to have swum about 500 feet (152 metres) across the Cape Cod Canal from the mainland in late May has captured the imagination of residents as it traipses across the peninsula. Officials say research dating to the 1700s suggests this is the first bear on the Cape.
Boston-area newscasts are featuring daily updates on the bear's whereabouts, and a Cape Cod Bear Twitter feed has nearly 1,300 followers.
"Well, my goodness. How often do you see a bear on Cape Cod?" said Marion Larson, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. "It's really cool, and people are really excited about it."
A Cape Cod Times reporter told the paper she spotted the bear around 6 a.m. Thursday and said it bounded across the road like a puppy.
The bear, likely a male about 3 years old, has been seen near a chicken coop, a cranberry bog, a golf course and more than a dozen other locations along a 60-mile (96-kilometre) stretch of the Cape.
Now that the bear has reached the tip of the Cape, wildlife officials say they may attempt to immobilize and move it to an area where other bears live. Bears don't generally turn around and go back where they came from, and he can't go any farther east.
"He's at the end of the line, as far as real estate," Larson said.
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Sounds like the bear was a much stronger swimmer than Teddy.
'Course I'm giving the bear the benefit of the doubt he wasn't drunk.
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He is old enough that he is gonna get lonely maybe?
Hope he swims back and doesn't take out his frustration on the locals.....he's liable to wake up on the mainland with a hang over and the last thing he remembers is some two-legs with funny looking sticks.
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He is old enough that he is gonna get lonely maybe?
Hope he swims back and doesn't take out his frustration on the locals.....he's liable to wake up on the mainland with a hang over and the last thing he remembers is some two-legs with funny looking sticks.
I hope he does "take out his frustration on the locals." those are the people that give the North East a bad reputation.
Most would not be missed.
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More than likely it will leave a bad taste in the bears mouth... ::)
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I thought you were talking about the REAL Yogi Bear visiting Cape May.
Reminds me of a joke that I can't even post here with symbols (#%&*).
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This bear is one travelin' Jones!
A few weeks ago, they captured Yogi and transported him about 100 miles west of Boston and released him somewhere in the Berkshires in western Mass. Yesterday, he showed up in a Brookline neighborhood which is a suburb of Boston!
The captured him again and took him back to the Berkshires. More than likely, he'll be back according to the experts. We have an estimated 4000 bears in the state and only about 240-250 are harvested annually by hunters.
BROOKLINE (AP) - A black bear that showed up in suburban Boston is the same one that swam to Cape Cod on Memorial Day weekend, authorities say.
For the second time this month, wildlife officials used a tranquilizer dart on Tuesday to immobilize the bear so they could capture it. It happened after the bear climbed a tree in Brookline, drawing a crowd of onlookers and police officers.
On June 12, authorities relocated the 180-pound male bear to central Massachusetts after it wandered for two weeks on the Cape.
Wildlife officials said then that the bear's breeding instinct may have sparked its travels, with that trip marking the first time authorities believe a black bear visited the Cape.
Now authorities say they're relocating the bear to a remote location in western Massachusetts.
The bear was spotted Tuesday morning in a tree in Brookline's upscale Chestnut Hill neighborhood. An environmental police officer perched in a cherry picker and fired the dart at the bear, said Reginald Zimmerman, a spokesman for the state office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
The startled bear initially climbed farther up the tree before tumbling about 80 feet to the ground.
Brookline police Chief Daniel O'Leary told reporters at the scene that the bear wasn't believed to be the one spotted in several other Boston suburbs recently. He said it was wearing tags indicating that it had been previously tracked.
Officials couldn't immediately remember another bear sighting in Brookline, but Zimmerman said the presence of the bear so close to Boston shouldn't be a major surprise.
"Bears have been in suburban areas and among people for many years," he said. "They are highly adaptable."
Read more: http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/18881067/2012/06/26/black-bear-sighting-in-brookline#ixzz1yzvUr72M
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Maybe he's hooked on the tranquilizers . ;D
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Might be worth getting my bear tag this year ($5.00)! With the exception of 'yotes, it's the only thing you can hunt with a rifle or a handgun. Don't think my .38 is enuf gun though! Might could borrow the AR10 from the kids..
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Never fear boys and girls - Mikey is here!
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e330/m58/DSC_2703.jpg)
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Ours are babies compared to that monster Mike! I do recall someone taking a 600# bear in Vermont or NH a few years back.
We can't bait here either! Not sure on the tree stand either.
Edit...It was Maine with a bow..
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2010/09/29/bow_hunter_bags_600_pound_black_bear_in_maine/
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Please note that the stick in my hand is just a cane ;) Canada ain't very gun friendly, so I had to punch him out ;D
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Maybe he's hooked on the tranquilizers . ;D
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
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The poor guy got hit in the ass 50 feet up the tree, ran another 30 feet further up, got another in the ass and eventually fell! Thankfully he landed on a few branches on his 80 foot drop and landed in a squat bush. Didn't bust him at all...
they have the whole incident on tape.
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We had a close encounter at our camper this weekend! NE Ohio isn't known for Black Bears but there has been several sightings locally including one in our campground at a trailer about 1/8 mi. away. I was at a match at the time so it was gone by the time I got back. My wife told me the owner went back w/marshmallows and the ranger that showed up told him that if he gave them to the bear "It was his!" I suppose if we have too much trouble they can trap it and relocate it but that is never a sure thing since there will probably be another to take its place.
Richard
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We had a close encounter at our camper this weekend! NE Ohio isn't known for Black Bears but there has been several sightings locally including one in our campground at a trailer about 1/8 mi. away. I was at a match at the time so it was gone by the time I got back. My wife told me the owner went back w/marshmallows and the ranger that showed up told him that if he gave them to the bear "It was his!" I suppose if we have too much trouble they can trap it and relocate it but that is never a sure thing since there will probably be another to take its place.
Richard
A guy I used to work with said they baited bears with Dunkin Donuts day old pastries they got free as "pig feed".
Said they would leave out a 55 gallon drum of them and come back a day or so later.
The whole wheat bagels and bran muffins were thrown all over, but the jelly donuts were GONE.
Also said the bear they got had rotten teeth. ;D
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A bruin believed to have swum about 500 feet (152 metres) across the Cape Cod Canal from the mainland in late May has captured the imagination of residents as it traipses across the peninsula. Officials say research dating to the 1700s suggests this is the first bear on the Cape.
My bet is the poor bugger has a missus and cubs back on the mainland and just wants some peace and friggin quiet!
Bears dont have sheds ya know! ;D
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A guy I used to work with said they baited bears with Dunkin Donuts day old pastries they got free as "pig feed".
Said they would leave out a 55 gallon drum of them and come back a day or so later.
The whole wheat bagels and bran muffins were thrown all over, but the jelly donuts were GONE.
Also said the bear they got had rotten teeth. ;D
Are talking about bears or cops here?
Sorry, couldn't resist. ::)
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Are talking about bears or cops here?
Sorry, couldn't resist. ::)
It was Berwick Me. so the bait might have gone to either,The fact they didn't leave coffee with the donuts makes me think bear. but what they shot (bow ) was a bear. ;D
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The poor guy got hit in the ass 50 feet up the tree, ran another 30 feet further up, got another in the ass and eventually fell! Thankfully he landed on a few branches on his 80 foot drop and landed in a squat bush. Didn't bust him at all...
they have the whole incident on tape.
I think it was unprofessional to dart him that high up a tree. Give him a little time and he'll come down and give you a better shot.
A guy I used to work with said they baited bears with Dunkin Donuts day old pastries they got free as "pig feed".
Said they would leave out a 55 gallon drum of them and come back a day or so later.
The whole wheat bagels and bran muffins were thrown all over, but the jelly donuts were GONE.
Also said the bear they got had rotten teeth. ;D
Using donuts and other sweets is a pretty common and effective method of attracting bears. That's what my roommate uses in her research.
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I think it was unprofessional to dart him that high up a tree. Give him a little time and he'll come down and give you a better shot.
I agree but we're talking about Massachusetts! They ain't real bright up here ya know....after all we're the state that still has traffic circles...
;D